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(KDE4 has much more features than Gnome, it is faster and looks better (my oppinion). Gnome is going to leave behind KDE)

[Sorry for my English]

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"Human beings" are confused by a half translated GUI. On the first boot after the installation show a dialog which points them to the language support screen (with some pointers) and explain why the GUI isn't in their native language.

A technically more complicated but way more elegant solution would be to install the missing packages when the machine is first hooked onto the internet after installation (including a dialog informing the user that this will happen when they hook the machine up to the internet).

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this GUI will NOT be depended on if the application is installed or not installed.

for example:
if i plug or open up my scanner, Ubuntu will pop up a window and recommend to my to install and to run specific scanner tool.
but,if i plug or open up my scanner, and the scanner tool is already installed, Ubuntu will only ask my to run the tool.

the same with: mobile phone, PDA...

why is it good:
- i don't need scanner tool if i don't have scanner
- i don't need PDA tool if i don't have PDA
...
- easy way to use hardware
- those application will have a better from support
- better translations
- new level for hardware support


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]]> Mon, 12-May-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8364/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8378/ In my opinion, this not only subtracts from the overall flow of things, but it's nice to know what's going on while you wait.
I know there's an option to turn on the splash screen (at least, there was in Gutsy), but honestly, it should be there no matter what if the desktop doesn't load faster.
Would it be possible to load the desktop, or at least some aspects of it, before logging in? In XP, the desktop is there as soon as you log in, it just has to load all of the startup apps.

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While we are at it, white not have all the GUI programs installed on system build be added to the menu by default, even if it in a folder called 'other'. This is especially helpful when I need to use a program like displaygraphics-gtk but don't know the name of the program. New users will have no idea what is installed by default if they don't have a way to access these programs in an easy manner.

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And another thing I would like to see is Setting a background image, and being able to set a tiled image behind it. Exp: A image of a star ass wallpaper, centered. And a tiled image of generic inter-stellar space behind it.

Sounds very cool

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Video of kinetic scrolling on an Open Moko: http://youtube.com/watch?v=k9eDkhHdNLI
Note: there would be an option to revert to the normal way.

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Samba is a good example of this. If you delete that smb.conf file, then it can't do anything. If it did this, that would be so awesome.

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It's seemingly small things like this that keeps ubuntu from being ready for the average windows user to switch to. I hope these details will be looked into for the next release.

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This would just give Ubuntu more edge and make it even more intuitive. Although for people used to the old style scrollbar it may be confusing at first glance, it would quickly become another reason to get hooked on Ubuntu :)

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In this day and age of several open source forum/messageboard systems with features coming out of their ears, all with email subscription controls and probably RSS feeds too, why are developers still using the antiquated, frankly crappy mailing lists of old?

It seems like its such a traditional,ingrained thing to use mailing lists if you are an open source developer that they all keep using them even when there are better solutions out there.

I would like to see more projects making use of more modern, sophisticated tools. I am talking about forums here but perhaps it could be something else all together, I'm not really up on what is out there for collaborations and communication, but whatever you use it certainly doesn't need to be a mailing list with it's ugly text email with zero functionality besides getting your inbox filled with conversations better suited to a forum thread.

If it sounds like I am just moaning then you are missing the point, that if you had an attractive, easy to use forum with different catagories for different suggestions and development topics then you would get sooooo many more people joining in.

Ditch mailing lists, they suck!


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]]> Mon, 12-May-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8362/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8371/ Preferences > Sessions

When you add a program to the startup list it would be nice to have an option to start it with different options such as minimized, in the notification area, maximized, as a background process, ect

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Can't this whole process be automated somehow so the user doesn't have to ever worry about this? Can't update manager be made "smarter" so when it gets a 404 error, or FTP/HTTP server unavailable error or whatever when requesting a file, to try and download the same file from a mirror on the fly? Can't there be a centralized status server setup simply to monitor the workload status of the rest of the repository servers and act as an auto-redirect for update manager? I think it would make more sense if you expanded update manager so you can see the files as they're coming down, and watch one snag because a server isn't responsive, for it to perk up and say, "Download failed: Auto-attempting X mirror server. Success! Proceeding to next file."

If I were to rephrase this in one sentence, it would be, "Get rid of the Software Sources menu."

**If the computer tries a source of any type, and that source fails, it shouldn't come back with an error message that confuses the user. It should try any number of alternates automatically until it finds one that works.**

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Thus, the user could still be in the Live CD, maybe playing a game of chess, while the system is being installed, with new updates from the Internet. Thus, the user is more quickly up-to-date with the latest software.

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See which developer said what.
I know this isn't an extremely useful idea like bookmarks, but it takes very little coding.

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It would be great to have an ubuntu-desktop-light metapackage, that have a more light-weighted selection of packages. For example, I'm sure that some people don't use evolution, gedit or evince in there ubuntu desktop. The uninstallation of gedit makes ubuntu-desktop disappear, and this could lead to several problems with the update of ubuntu.
A ubuntu-desktop-light metapackage, with less dependancies, is a simple way to get around this problem.

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I eventually figured out it had something to do with KDE using the sound, so I learned to just insist, and keep closing prboom and starting it back until sound worked.

Some time later, I upgraded to Dapper Drake, the issue was still there.

I moved back to windows XP, some time passed, and for some reason I tried ubuntu again, Feisty. I didn't really want to play prboom, but I still needed multimedia every once in a while, same problem, two applications that use sound cannot be run simultaneously, if you run one, the other will not be able to ever play sound, not even if the first one is not running sound at all, it happens with floola, with totem, firefox, it is crazy.

2008, Hardy upgrade, I got the issue of not being able to edit war3 maps correctly because both world editor and the game itself use sound, so I must either test stuff muted, or close world editor (which is painful since it often takes ages to open again).

So, I really wish next version(s) could focus on fixing this longstanding issue. I've searched the web and it looks like issues with Alsa.

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The setting of the sound volume is not supported, nor other keys functions.

It would be useful to integrate on the GUI a program that supports the brightness configuration, from the Fn keys and also with a bar on the Power Manager applet.

Theses features need to be seamless for the user for all laptops.

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